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Genre of films
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- 2. EXAMPLES OF COMEDY The Heat Grown ups Rat Run Run fat Boy Run Hot Fuzz The Hangover
- 3. LITTLE BIT OFCOMEDY Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. These films are designed to entertain the audience through amusement, and often work by exaggerating characteristics of real life for humorous effect. Comedy is one of the oldest genres (silent films used often slap stick comedy of grand gestures or fumy costumes) Comedy is a base genre and can over lap in many other genres eg: Comedy Horror, Tragi-comedy, Rom-Com . Comedy has a vast set of codes and can introduce other genres to a classic film remake which is called a parody.
- 4. TECHNICAL CODES Thecamera angle goes along with characters, filming is natural and uses high shots for a whole scene.
- 5. CHICK FLICKS Chickflicks are a modern genre (80’s) which has a target audience of a mainly female market. The films often involve a group of girls, an attractive male lead and an unpopular girl getting her dream!
- 6. CODES Verbal codes-dialect is an important aspect of a chick flick, there are often funny quotes with sassy tones. Eg “you can go shave your back now” (Mean girls) The un-diegetic is important as the songs are often “sexy” during a strut and or important scene. The diegetic is usually laughing, slap stick sound effects and gasps.
- 7. CODES Technical- technicalcodes involve the camera angles like a “Establish angle” often in school grounds like a canteen or corridor. There are usually slow motion clips usually in a strut or kiss.
- 8. CHICK FLICKS Meangirls A Cinderella story Lizzie Maguire: The Movie Freaky Friday Material Girls 10 things I hate about you
- 9. HORROR Horror isa classic genre when a camera was invented people become obssessed with scaring themselves! Monsters had been written for hundreds of years and finally “The Haunted Castle” shown in 1896 started a craze still going strong over 100 years later!
- 10. CODES Horror filmsare incredible to decode symbolic codes “The Village” emphasizes the colour red. The story plot states if there is red in the villages the monsters will come! Not only are colours symbolic but the location whether its have historic value or more dramatic scenery.
- 11. CODES Lighting “dark lighting” or a contrast of “intense light” Camera angles “extreme close up” to intimate the audience, to trap the viewers. Jittering camera gives a home made and realistic feel (shaky cam)